Access to the Hangouts Chrome extension was also revoked.Įven now, all the chat history that you might have tied up with Hangouts over the years can still be recovered, but there's a deadline for saving it as well: Google Takeout will let users download their data up until January 1st, 2023. By mid-year, users lost access to the Hangouts mobile app, and were guided to upgrade to Chat, either within Gmail or via the separate app.
